S2260 Shields the Abortion Industry and Undermines Protections for Unborn Children

WASHINGTON — New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed S2260 into law today, expanding legal protections for abortion providers and restricting cooperation with investigations and legal proceedings originating in states where unborn children receive greater protection under the law.

National Right to Life condemned the law as an effort to insulate the abortion industry from accountability while further entrenching abortion in New Jersey.

“S2260 places the power of New Jersey’s government behind the abortion industry and against the lives of unborn children,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Governor Sherrill and the lawmakers who supported this legislation have chosen to make New Jersey a haven for those who end the lives of unborn children—even when those children and their mothers are located in states whose laws protect them.”

The law broadly defines “reproductive health care activity” to include providing, advising, facilitating, encouraging, referring for, assisting with, or providing material support for abortions considered legal under New Jersey law. It restricts certain investigations, legal actions, demands for records, professional disciplinary measures, and extradition proceedings arising from such activities.

The law also establishes criminal and civil penalties for specified acts classified as “interference with reproductive health care services.”

“S2260 attempts to prevent other states from enforcing their laws while shielding abortion providers who reach across state lines,” Tobias said. “This is not about protecting women’s health. It is about protecting abortion providers and expanding an industry whose purpose is the death of an unborn child.”

New Jersey Right to Life Executive Director Marie Tasy said the governor signed the legislation despite thousands of messages from New Jersey residents urging her to veto it.

“Governor Sherrill just signed a blank check for the abortion industry and a death warrant for countless unborn children with beating hearts,” said Tasy. “S2260 does not protect women. It protects the people who end the lives of living human children already growing in the womb. New Jersey should be a sanctuary for mothers and babies, not a legal fortress for those who profit from abortion.”

Supporters of S2260 repeatedly describe abortion as “reproductive health care.” National Right to Life rejected that characterization.

Tobias continued, “Abortion does not preserve or advance reproduction. It deliberately ends the life of an unborn child. Calling abortion ‘health care’ does not change what abortion does to that child or provide the meaningful support women deserve.”

National Right to Life and New Jersey Right to Life will continue working for laws and policies that protect unborn children while ensuring that women facing unexpected pregnancies receive compassionate assistance and genuine alternatives to abortion.

“Women deserve better than a government that treats abortion as the answer to difficult circumstances,” Tobias said. “They deserve practical support, compassionate care, and the assurance that both their lives and the lives of their unborn children matter.”

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliates in each of the 50 states, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON — National Right to Life, the federation of state right-to-life affiliates, today announced its endorsement of Congresswoman Julia Letlow for election to the U.S. Senate at Louisiana Right to Life’s Acadiana Quarterly Preaux Life Luncheon in Lafayette, Louisiana.

“National Right to Life is pleased to endorse Julia Letlow for the United States Senate,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Throughout her service in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Letlow has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to protecting innocent human life and supporting mothers and their children.”

Since entering Congress in 2021, Letlow has had a 100% pro-life voting record which includes votes to protect babies who survive abortions, prevent taxpayer funding of abortion, and stop federal funding from flowing to major abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.

“Julia Letlow understands that every human life has value and deserves protection,” Tobias continued. “Louisiana families can trust her to stand against the abortion industry’s radical agenda and to defend the most vulnerable members of our society.”

Letlow’s opponent, Democrat Jamie Davis, has said he supports codifying Roe v. Wade and restoring a federal right to abortion. Such legislation would threaten Louisiana’s protective laws and prevent elected lawmakers from safeguarding unborn children and their mothers.

“The contrast in this election could not be more clear,” Tobias said. “Julia Letlow will defend Louisiana’s pro-life values in the United States Senate, while Jamie Davis would support efforts to impose abortion on demand through federal law.”

National Right to Life urges all pro-life voters in Louisiana to vote for Julia Letlow in the November 3 general election.

“Julia Letlow has earned the confidence and support of pro-life Louisianans,” Tobias added. “National Right to Life looks forward to working with Senator Julia Letlow to advance protections for unborn children and provide compassionate support for women and families.”

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliates in each of the 50 states, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed H.5595, deceptively titled the “Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act,” eliminating the state’s remaining statutory limits on abortions performed after 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Previously, Massachusetts law permitted abortions after 24 weeks only when necessary to preserve the life or physical or mental health of the mother, or in cases involving a lethal or severe fetal diagnosis. The new law replaces those statutory conditions with the “professional judgment” of the physician performing the abortion—effectively allowing abortion for any reason throughout pregnancy, including when both mother and unborn child are healthy.

The legislation also eliminates the requirement that abortions after 24 weeks be performed in a hospital, removing an important safeguard for women undergoing dangerous late-term procedures.

“Governor Healey and the Massachusetts Legislature have erased the final protections for unborn children who can feel pain and who could survive outside the womb,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “At the very stage when premature babies are receiving lifesaving care in neonatal intensive care units, Massachusetts will permit abortionists to end the lives of children of the same age—and even older. That is not compassion, and it is not health care.”

Supporters claim the law protects the doctor-patient relationship, but it places the decision entirely in the hands of the abortion provider while denying any legal protection to the unborn child.

“Legalizing elective abortion up to birth on healthy mothers and healthy, pain-capable unborn children is not about protecting the doctor-patient relationship,” said Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, National Right to Life’s state affiliate. “It is about abortionists normalizing the deaths of fully developed infants and pressuring vulnerable women to permit their unborn children to die in heinous acts of violence. These abortions represent among the most severe human rights abuses permitted in only a few places around the world, including China and North Korea.”

The Massachusetts House passed H.5595 on July 22 by a vote of 119–33. The Senate approved the measure on July 31 and sent it to Governor Healey.

“This law exposes the dishonesty behind the claim that no one supports abortion until birth,” Tobias continued. “When lawmakers remove every objective limitation and authorize an abortion provider to decide whether an abortion may be performed at any point in pregnancy, abortion until birth is precisely what the law allows.”

National Right to Life and Massachusetts Citizens for Life remain committed to protecting mothers and their unborn children from an abortion industry that profits when vulnerable women believe they have no better choice.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliates in each of the 50 states, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.